The Summer School in Urban Ethnography @ UNITN aims to provide participants with an inside view on the practice of urban ethnography. Its key focus is understanding the city through ethnographic approaches at large. As the majority of the world’s population now lives in cities (according to United Nations Habitat Agency’s . . . → Read More: International Summer School in Urban Ethnography

Within the cycle of International Conferences ‘City Portraits’, organized by the School of Doctorate Studies, Università Iuav di Venezia, on February 29th – March 1st 2012 . . . → Read More: Istanbul. City Portrait

28-30 September 2011 Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal .

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The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, together with the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; and the European . . . → Read More: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability

The conference’s aim is to promote an exchange of views about different approaches and experiences with forms of international cultural cooperation and to formulate common targets for future collaboration. Hence the event makes a contribution to the international debate on the interaction of culture . . . → Read More: Conference »radius of art«

ENG. By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts . . . → Read More: Urban Plots, Organizing Cities – Book Launch

In the folder of personal blogs dedicated to describe the many facets of everyday life, Spitalfields Life occupies, to my mind, a distinct position. It is indeed one of the most interesting territorial blogs around. Born out of an act of love for the Spitalfields neighbourhood, in the East End of London, and its . . . → Read More: Life and Lives in Spitalfields, London